Jack(e)k dio: > > Le 25 juin 08 à 10:59, altern a écrit : > >> hi >> >> anyone knows of an online worldwide forecast service? I am developing >> some python scripts with Pyext external that retrieve different type of >> data from the net into PD. >> >> At the moment i have been using yahoo weather, this is quite handy >> because they have RSS feed that can be easily manipulated from python >> and returned into PD. >> >> Currently i have scripts that tell me the external IP of my computer and >> another one that uses the IP to retrieve geolocation data (lat, long, >> nearby city, country ), using this i think i should be able to ask yahoo >> for weather data of an specific city and country and from there access >> the RSS. >> >> However I think there are some copyright issues with yahoo weather. I >> read a notice in the HTML source of yahoo weather saying that this data >> is not to be used without permission >> " ...You are prohibited from using or repurposing this data in any way >> without express written consent from Yahoo! ..." > It seems to be a sort of blabla from Yahoo. > I think if you don't make business, there is no problem. > The only problem i know with yahoo is that they can prohibit your access > to their website after several requests during 1 days (with your IP). > I often 'hacked' the yahoo financial site for an installation using PHP, > MySQL and PD. I never had judicial problem. (i was living in france and > take data from US yahoo financial website).
ok, so one has to be careful with not overloading them > You can use also www.accuweather.com. I use this site to make a small > install (in real time) with datas using the wind and temperature. I > never had problem. > ++ thanks for the link, i am at the minute testing BBC weather, i can send a form witih the name of the city i am interested in and then parse the resulting page to get the ID. This works fine, i am now trying to parse the XML data. The "only" issue with this is if there are several cities with the same name, it offers you several choices, currently i am going for the first one. enrike > Jack > > >> >> I guess i could pretend i did not see the notice but maybe there is some >> worldwide forecast service that would allow me to use the data? >> >> thanks >> >> enrike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
